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VO LUHE tWO
HUfiVLII THIRTY-EIGHT.
WHAT WE 'lHiy-K OF WHAT WE SEE
Sy A. E. AAMSALTR, Managing Editor.
It has been discovered by reputable chemists
that peanuts destroy the desire for whiskey. Hints
to college men seeking a business opening after the
close of the football season: Open peanut stands
in Georgia, get options on street corners in Alabama
and Tennessee cities.
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Dr. Torrey, the noted evangelist, recently said in
a sermon: “In every meeting I have ever held,*
some one has heard me and has died the next day.”
That isn’t long to survive; but the question that
perplexes us is, how does any man hold congrega
tions when he gives them such frank warning as to
the effect of his sermons?
A Washington, D. C., man is suing for ten thou
sand dollars damage because a horse stepped on his
face. A paper in speaking of it says: “How
would you like to have a horse step on your face?”
Nobody would like that —but then is the face of a
man who can’t keep it where the horses will step
on it, worth ten thousand dollars?
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Tom Jinks whipped Lis mother-in-law Tuesday
morning.—Williamsville Eagle.
Hanged if we believe it.—Whitsett Courier.
Well, but have you locked in the obituary column
of the Williamsville Eagle? Maybe Tom has a
mention there in the same issue as the one given
above.
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A western woman who does her own housekeeping
has figured it out that she walks in the neighbor
hood of seven miles per day while performing her
household duties. We would like to submit to her
the problem of the distance covered by Hubby try
ing to get a half yard of ribbon to match some she
has already on hind.
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The present financial flurry is making pretty hard
times for most of ns; and the average man has
troubles enough of his own to k?ep bis attention
firmly fixed; but lives there a man with soul so dead
as not to feel a wave of sympathy for that Texas
man who has forty children, juat now that Christ
mas is coming?
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It gave us great pleasure to mention Mr. Bobert
Hill of Chicago, Til., last week, in connection with
the noble work he is d< ing for temperance by cook
ing for the family while his wife makes speeches
and presides over meetings of 'he W. C. T. U. We
wish there were more like him; and we are rejoiced
to learn through a communication in a New York
paper, that public sentiment is being educated alqig
this line and that individual opinion is also com
ing to discern the possibilities that are open in the
noble field of cooking. The communication is as
follows: “I am told that a New Haven member of
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the Symphony Orchestra has advanced from a musi
cian and become a fine cook, and that nobody looks
down on him because cf his former occupation.”
Certainly net I The people of the country form
their estimate of a man’s worth not on what he may
have been in the past, but upon what he has risen
to. A cook is no less worthy because he once
fiddled.
Another odd inscription has been discovered on
a small headstone in a very ancient cemetery in
the western part of the State of New York. Its
history is as follows: A widower who was very
penurious but who at the same time was very fond
of his departed partner, went to make an order
for a stone to be placed over her grave. He or
dered a small one, in the interests of economy, and
ordered the following inscription placed upon it:
“Sarah Hackett. Aged Ninety Years. Lord, She
Was Thine.” The stonecutter said there was too
much inscription for the surface of the stone, but
was tola to “squeeze it on- in one line.” Here is
the inscription af;er it was “squeezed”:
“Sarah Hackett. Aged Ninety. Lor4, She Was
Thin.”
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The Honorable David Sanders, a native of Indi
ana, has just published a book with the concise
title:
“Church Creeds and Party Platforms, a Com
parison t f Catholic Preachers, Campbellite Priests
and Ministers of Other ‘Christian’ Churches; also
a Shallow Probing of the Deep Conundrum, ‘What
Shall the Democratic Party Do to Be Saved?’ and
Some Other Matters Pertaining to Your Soul’s
Salvation.”
And he sells it all, in good binding, for fifty
cents. We are writing to be informed if there is a
special discount to ministers and to young men at
present attending theological seminary. Announce
ment on that point may be expected to appear in
this column at an early date.
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We learn from a news item that the motto “In
God We Trust” is left cff the new ten dollar gold
coin and that it is not to be used on any coins in
the future. Southern newspaper folk will probably
never be able to verify the statement, but it was
published in a reliable publication. The announce
ment has called forth a letter from an old-timer to
a contemporary, in which he states: “When the
‘Buzzard Dollar’—the ‘ninety-two cent piece,’ was
a novelty in 1878, the small boy, in response to the
Sunday school teacher’s inquiry as to the intent of
the motto, replied: ‘We trust Him for the other
eight cents!’ ” Very, very irreverent; but we won
der just where our trust is reposed in these days of
Clearing House Certificates that look like snuff
coupons?
A writer in the Chicago Tribune says:
“One thing is certain —you can not chew gum
and think at the same time with any degree of
success. You may chew gum and work mechanic
ally, you may read with gum in your mouth and
perhaps not miss anything in the author, but when
it comes right down to good bard mental effort you
can not concentrate and achieve the best results
of which you are capable while your jaws wurk
unceasingly. That champing is just so much wasted
energy and as such dissipates your force and keeps
your thinking powers reduced to the lowest point.”
Well, granting that to be true, who wants to think
or read, or attempt mental effort of any kind, if
they can get gum to chew? Gum ehewers don’t
want to divide their attention in that way.
The writing of limericks has heretofore been re
garded, so far as our knowledge goes, as a harmless
occupation. Quite a number of our papers have
conducted limerick competitions wherein the prize
was to be won by the person who composed the best
fourth fine to a limerick, the first three being
given. No serious, harm has been known to result
here, but in England there is being a protest mads
because of the horrible sufferings brought about
through the competitions there. The British Week
ly recently said:
“At first we took no exception to them, believing
they might be a slight and harmless way of exer
cising the minds of readers. But as time goes on
the result of them has proved disastrous. We have
had laid before us accounts of their actual working
which it is impossible to read without dismay. For
the present we do not propose to print the whole
of this evidence, but it is a matter of knowledge
that a young man was recently brought up for cruel
neglect of his children and for leaving them and
his wife without food, and it came out in the evi
dence that he had spent a large amount of his wages
in buying sixpenny postal orders for coupons.”
Think of a young father neglecting his children
and his wife because of a limerick! We should take
warning and suppress the limerick movement be
fore they begin to run througn the minds of our
people something hko the classic “blue slip trip”
and “punch in the presence of the passengaire”
rigmarole. But then there is a gn<»d lot of senti
ment against poets anyway. An editor of a promi
nent magazine is reported to have said recently to
a friend who had just enrne into his office: “I have
just refused to buy Scribbler’s poem. It was a
good one, too.” “Why on earth did you refuse it,
then?” asked the friend.
“Well, I just had to.” replied the editor. “He
said if I didn’t take it he would kill himself.” That
is too unfeeling, viewed in one light; but then
something radical must be done in the matter of
stopping the poets.
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